Kony Ealy in the NFL
In the NFL. Photo: Mike Morbeck, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Defensive line, Missouri, 2010–⁠13

Kony Ealy

Lettered 2011–⁠13 (school media guide)

Number
No. 47
Height
6′5″
Hometown
New Madrid, MO
Born
Dec 21, 1991, in St. Louis, Missouri

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Kony Ealy played defensive line at Missouri (2010–⁠13). The Carolina Panthers took Ealy in round 2, No. 60 overall in the 2014 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2013
First-team All-SEC
Drafted
No. 60
Round 2, 2014 NFL Draft (Carolina Panthers)

Honors

Defense

SeasonTeamInt
2013Missouri1

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. Before 2016 our source records only interceptions for most defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so these lines count interceptions only. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksIntPBUFFHur
201197916310000
201212181937103.50715
2013N1430134314.59.5163–
On file55419627.5141134–

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2010Missouri47DL
2011Missouri47DL
2012Missouri47DL
2013Missouri47DL6′5″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2013 Missouri 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT
DateOpponentResultInt
Sep 21atIndianaW 45–⁠281

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file. Before 2016 our source’s box scores record only interceptions for defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so only those games are listed. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Before the draft

DrillCombine 2014Combine or pro day 2014
Height6′4″
Weight273 lb
Arm length34¼″
Hand size9½″
40-yard dash4.92 s
10-yard split1.71 s
Vertical jump31″
Broad jump9′6″
Bench press22 reps
3-cone drill6.83 s
20-yard shuttle4.45 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data).

In the NFL

5 seasons, 52 games with a stat; latest team: Oakland Raiders.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2014Carolina Panthers111140
2015Carolina Panthers143050
2016Carolina Panthers142951
2017New York Jets111411
2018Oakland Raiders2200
NFL career5286152

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

Other pro football

YearsLeagueTeam
2020XFLHouston Roughnecks
2021CFLToronto Argonauts
2022–⁠23CFLEdmonton Elks

Leagues other than the NFL, from the infobox of his Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), as it names the teams.

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